It is with great pleasure that I take the helm as the ninth Editor-in-Chief of Communications, the flagship publication and ACM's vessel for the most important and interesting happenings across the field of computing.
Andrew A. ChienPage 5DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up

While this is not intended to be a dystopian rant, I feel strongly motivated to draw attention to the fragile and interdependent future we are creating through the use of programmable devices and systems.
Vinton G. CerfPage 7DEPARTMENT: [email protected]

In "Fast and Powerful Hashing Using Tabulation," Mikkel Thorup describes a variation of simple but surprisingly effective and powerful hash functions based on using small tables of random hash values.
Michael MitzenmacherPage 93